The state’s most strident gun-rights group claims a Republican state senator who has had a concealed-weapons permit for 15 years is “anti-gun.”

Dudley Brown, director of the Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, mailed a letter to voters in Senate District 8 attacking Sen. Jean White’s record on gun issues.

“You and I are only one or two votes shy in the Colorado State Legislature of losing our right to keep and bear arms,” Brown claimed.

White countered with her own letter, saying her father taught her to “cherish” the Second Amendment and was thrilled when she obtained her concealed-carry permit.

White, of Hayden, is competing with Rep. Randy Baumgardner of Cowdrey for the GOP nomination in the newly drawn northwestern Colorado Senate district. The gun group backs Baumgardner.

They will be nominated for the ballot during one of multiple Republican assemblies being held today at the Colorado Convention Center.

There will be nominating assemblies for other legislative races, district attorney seats and six of seven congressional districts.

These assemblies involve districts that include multiple counties.

To make the ballot outright, a candidate must get more than 30 percent of the delegate vote. Those who get between 10 and 30 percent can petition onto the ballot. Candidates falling under 10 percent are out of the race.

The primary is in June.

Brown said his group is involved in several legislative assemblies today to make sure the “most solid pro-gun candidate is nominated.”

After the assemblies, political operative and Colorado native Karl Rove will speak to Republicans at a closed-door dinner tonight at the convention center.

Ryan Call, chairman of the Colorado Republican Party, said Rove will briefly speak to the media beforehand.

Why is the dinner closed?

“He (Rove) is going to be talking about upcoming strategy,” Call said. “It’s a little bit of an insider look at what is certainly going to be a competitive and critical election.”

Rove earlier predicted Colorado would be “ground zero” in the presidential race.

Republicans will gather Saturday at the University of Denver’s Ritchie Center for their state convention, where they will elect 12 at-large delegates and 12 at-large alternates to the Republican National Convention in Tampa in August.

Another 18 delegates and 18 alternates will be elected today during assemblies for six of the seven congressional districts. The 7th CD elected its three delegates and three alternates at an assembly Thursday night at the Jefferson County fairgrounds.

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